Valedhelgwath has made 4242 posts and is an Elf from Rivendell and is not online.
Posted Thursday 1st January 1970 (12:00am)

Wow.... Am I on the same site? Has someone slipped something into my drink?Take a little getting used to, but it looks good, and as long as everyone's still here, that's the main thing.Was that a prophesy when I mentioned to you that I wondered how you managed to run the site on your own?

ProgHead777 has made 909 posts and is a Hobbit from Buckland and is not online.
Posted Thursday 1st January 1970 (12:00am)

omigod...omigod! Where am I? I'm Sceeeered! j/kI love it! I know my rating is stranger but I've been visiting PT for a month now, I just haven't been posting! I absolutely love this site and now it's just gotten better! The people here are what makes the site so I don't think a facelift and upgrades will hurt anything. Dumb question: can we still call it planet tolkien?

Grondmaster has made 25465 posts and is a Dwarf from Glittering Caves and has sailed into the West.
Posted Thursday 1st January 1970 (12:00am)

Okay, three hours later and only waiting for five minutes to get the home page up instead of twenty to get half a page, I finally made it here. Having broadband at my end doesn't seem a help today at least for TF, it worked for PT. I suppose the neat graphics has been the slow-down cause.

Allyssa has made 1657 posts and is an Elf from Rivendell and is not online.
Posted Thursday 1st January 1970 (12:00am)

Nice Work Taz.

Hey, did I mention that I was here for the great historic moment of TolkienFan.net being born? I got quite a feeling of awe as the new era began. Very dramatic and exciting wasn't it Tommi? I felt quite privelidged and honoured.

Now that I have gotten used to it all, I rather like it. I sometimes find it hard to adjust to change (curse my elven blood!) but I admit that sometimes new is for the better.

Just one little thing.....any chance of getting that picture of Viggo back? Really liked that.

TomBombadillo has made 2746 posts and is an Elf from Rivendell and is not online.
Posted Thursday 1st January 1970 (12:00am)

Quote: The Council will be a team of people (not all of which have been chosen yet) who will manage the website on a daily basis, monitoring added content, coming up with new ideas and basically steering the community in the right direction. They will not have Tolkien based names and will still go by username as the people who are picked will already be well known around the site.

Hey Taz, surely Grondy should be on that Council. His name has even been turned into a verb now. Like Rednells post above, it got "Grondied". It was 42 who came up with it, and I laughed my *ss of when I first read it.

Allyssa has made 1657 posts and is an Elf from Rivendell and is not online.
Posted Thursday 1st January 1970 (12:00am)

Tolkien based names and the council

I think what Taz meant was that council members will not be given titles like "Elrond" or "Gandalf", as has been done elsewhere. It was thought that it would be better if familliar names were retained so that everyone knows who everyone is. You will have noticed the "council member" title under the usernames at the tops of member's posts.

Taz has also mentioned something about getting a Council Member List up, but I am not sure when. Probably when some members stop being shy about posting photos of themselves

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